Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C.
WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Internet Website is provided by the law firm of Geary, Porter & Donovan, A Professional Corporation (collectively, "GPD"). Your use of this Website is subject to the following terms and conditions. Your use of the Website constitutes acceptance of these terms.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS STATED BELOW, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY LOG OFF THIS WEBSITE
No Legal Representation Implied
Your use of this Website does not create any attorney-client relationship between you and GPD. The purpose of this Website is to provide general information to the public about the law firm and general legal issues. No attempt has been made to address the specific legal concerns or problems of any particular person or group of persons. To the extent that any legal discussions contained in this Website appear to specifically relate to any particular legal problem or question that you may have or believe you have, such is purely coincidental. To the extent that you choose to place any reliance on any information contained in this Website or take any action based on any information that you may obtain from this Website, such is purely at your own risk. If you have a specific legal question or problem, you should contact an attorney of your own choosing. Such an attorney may advise you as to the local laws that may be applicable to your specific circumstances. Such law may differ from that included on this Website. If you do not have an attorney and would like assistance in finding a suitable attorney to assist you, we suggest that you contact your local bar association.
Texas Attorneys Only
Unless otherwise specifically identified on this Website, the attorneys named or otherwise described as being associated with GPD are licensed to practice law only by the State Bar of Texas. The attorneys are not licensed to practice law in any other state, unless identified as being so licensed by specific notation included in a particular attorney's resume. Unless specifically identified, the attorneys are not certified in any particular area of law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. To the extent that this Website may be considered an advertisement or solicitation of any nature, it is only intended to advertise for or solicit legal business to be performed within the State of Texas.
Location of Law Firm
The law firm of Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C. maintains its principal office at 16475 Dallas Parkway, 5th Floor, Addison, Dallas County, Texas 75001-6837. For the convenience of its clients, GPD also maintains a satellite office at 5300 Memorial Drive, Suite 375, Houston, Texas 77007. The Houston satellite office is not staffed on a daily basis and is available for meetings by appointment only. In the event that it becomes necessary for you to request a meeting with one of our attorneys in GPD's Houston office, please contact the firm to arrange an appointment. GPD also maintains a post office box mailing address for the benefit of its clients. Such mailing address is Post Office Box 700248, Dallas, Texas 75370-0248. Neither the Houston satellite office nor the Dallas postal mailing address is intended to mislead or imply that GPD staffs multiple office locations on a daily basis.
Use of Materials on this Website
GPD maintains this Website for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Website. Without GPD's prior written permission, you may not reproduce, distribute, modify, display, prepare derivative works based on, repost or otherwise use any of the contents of this Website, except that you may download one copy of the material in temporal storage on one computer for your personal, noncommercial viewing only, provided you do not delete or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any copyright or any other intellectual property right. If you are an owner of intellectual property who believes their intellectual property has been improperly posted or distributed via this Website, please notify GPD immediately at Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C., 16475 Dallas Parkway, Suite 400, Addison, Texas 75001-6837. Attention: Webmaster
Your Communications to GPD
GPD appreciates your comments and other communications. However, GPD is unable to respond or provide answers to specific legal questions presented in such communications, except to identified existing clients of the law firm who specifically request such information. Except for communications between GPD and its clients, any communication or material transmitted to this Website by electronic mail or otherwise, including any personal data, questions or answers, comments, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as nonconfidential and nonproprietary. Anything you transmit or post on this Website may be used by GPD, at its sole discretion, or licensed to others by GPD for any purpose, including but not limited to mailing list rental product or service solicitations, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, and posting. Furthermore, GPD is free to use any ideas, concepts, information, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Website for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to developing and marketing products and/or services using such information.
Disclaimer
The material in this site could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. Your use and browsing of the Website is at your risk. Neither GPD nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Website shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Website. GPD does not warrant that the functional aspects of the Website will be uninterrupted or error free or that this Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. GPD reserves the right to make changes to this Website at any time without notice.
Links
GPD has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this Website and is not responsible for the contents of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to this Website. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by GPD of such sites or any representation as to the accuracy of any information contained on such sites. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
General Provisions
GPD may revise these terms from time to time by updating or revising this posting, with the revised terms taking effect as of the date of its posting. GPD controls and operates this site from its headquarters in the main office in Addison, Dallas County, Texas, United States of America and makes no representation that these materials are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you use this Website from other locations you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. Unless otherwise indicated, all information on this Website relating to any law or legal concept is applicable only to the State of Texas. Though such legal concepts may appear to relate to similar concepts in other parts of the United States of America or the world, the laws, statutes, legal duties, and interpretation of law vary greatly from location to location. Your consideration of any information that may appear on this Website as it may relate to your particular circumstances is at your own risk. GPD urges you to consult a lawyer of your choice who is familiar with the laws applicable to your own location.
If any portion of these terms is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law to the greatest extent possible and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in full force and effect. Any cause of action you may have with respect to this Website must be commenced within one year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred. These terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, United States of America without regard to its conflicts of law provisions.
Copyrights
You should assume that everything you see or read on the Website is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Website without the written permission of GPD. GPD neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Website will not infringe upon rights of third parties not affiliated with GPD. Images, photographs, or illustrations displayed on the Website are either the property of, or used with permission by, GPD. The use of these materials by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Website. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.
Trademarks
The trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively the "Trademarks") displayed on this Website are registered and unregistered trademarks of GPD or of others who have granted permission for use by GPD. Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on this Website without the written permission of GPD or such third party that may own the Trademark displayed on the Website. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on the Website, or any other content on the Website, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.
No Attorney - Client Relationship
The content of this web site has been written or gathered by Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C., and its representatives, for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be and is not considered to be legal advice, nor as a proposal for any type of legal transaction. Legal advice of any nature should be sought from legal counsel.
No communication between you and Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C., via this web site should be interpreted as establishing an attorney/client relationship. WARNING: Do not use the applied e-mail interface to send any privileged or confidential information. Internet messages can be intercepted. Further, we cannot maintain the confidentiality of information received outside of an attorney/client relationship. Confidential information about your question or problem may be communicated at a later time after an attorney/client relationship has been established.
In order to preserve and safeguard relationships with our current and former clients, Geary, Porter & Donovan, P.C., is required to follow certain formalities before agreeing to represent anyone in a particular matter.
Before establishing the attorney/client relationship for the purpose of assuming any new matters, our duties to existing and former clients require us to determine whether or not we may represent or advise you in light of any actual or potential conflicts with our existing or former clients or duties that the firm may owe. Until those prerequisites are completed, you are not to consider any communication with us by letter, facsimile transmission, telephone, Internet, e-mail or otherwise as privileged or confidential.
For More Information
If you have any questions regarding the contents, structure and formatting of this Website, please direct any written correspondence to the Webmaster, Ron Gray, at the address below, or send an email to rgray@gpd.com.
